from your Hibernate-4-Mappings and create or update your database
accordingly.
- The plugin was designed to be easy and safe to use, because it must not
- never, never happen, that you blow away your production database when
- firering a maven-build of your webapp on your production-machine!
- For more information about the inspiration to write this tiny plugin,
- {{{/hibernate4-maven-plugin-a-simple-plugin-for-generating-a-database-schema-from-hibernate-4-mapping-annotations/} read our blog-article about the hibernate4-maven-plugin}}.
+ The plugin was designed with three main goals in mind:
-Releases
+ * It should be easy to use.
- * {{{http://juplo.de/hibernate4-maven-plugin} current version}}
+ * It should be maximal unlikely, to erase a producation-database by
+ accident.
- * ${project.version} (this version)
+ * It should not slow down the development cycle.
+
+ To achieve the first goal, the convention-over-configuration paradigma
+ was applied and the plugin was stuffed with usefull logging-messages.
+ So, if in doubt, just turn on the {{{./debugging.html} debugging output}} with the <<<mvn -X ...>>>.
- * {{{http://juplo.de/hibernate4-maven-plugin-1.0} 1.0}}
+ To achieve the second goal, the precedence in which the configuration
+ locations are consulted was layouted in a way that makes it possible, to
+ prevent overwrites of the wrong database by accident.
-Documentation and Examples
+ Last but not least, in order to not slow down the development cycle, the
+ hibernate4-maven-plugin only executes the schema-export, if the mapping
+ or the dialect changes (or if you force it to do so).
+
+ For more information about the inspiration to write this tiny plugin,
+ {{{/hibernate4-maven-plugin-a-simple-plugin-for-generating-a-database-schema-from-hibernate-4-mapping-annotations/} read our blog-article about the hibernate4-maven-plugin}}.
- * See {{{./examples.html} Examples}} for Usage-Explanations and simple
- examples of how to use this plugin.
+* Documentation
- * See {{{./plugin-info.html} Plugin Documentation}} for the full
+ * See {{{./configuration.html} Configuration Examples}} for Usage-Explanations
+ and simple examples of how to use this plugin.
+
+ * See {{{./export-mojo.html}hibernate4:export}} and
+ {{{./plugin-info.html} Plugin Documentation}} for the full
autogenerated documentation. These are mostly configuration-options
of the Hibernate-Tools <<<SchemaExport>>> and <<<SchemaUpdate>>>, that do
the work in the background.
+
+* Releases
+
+ * {{{http://juplo.de/hibernate4-maven-plugin/index.html} current version}}
+
+ * ${project.version} (this version)
+
+ * {{{http://juplo.de/hibernate4-maven-plugin-1.0/index.html} 1.0}}